Sonnet 116 was written by William Shakespeare (1564-1616). He was born into a middle-class English family in Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire, England. In 1588 he moved to London to become an actor and a playwright. During his writing career, he wrote 150 sonnets, as well as 38 plays. He is generally considered to be the finest poet and playwright in the English language.
"Funeral Blues" was written by Winston Hugh Auden (1907-1973), Anglo-American poet, playwright, and literary critic. Auden was born in York, England, the son of a doctor. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford U…
